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Fruit and Vegetable Planting Restrictions: Analyzing the Processing Cucumber Market

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  • Krissoff, Barry
  • Motamed, Mesbah
  • Young, Edwin
  • You, Chengxia

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This report highlights the anticipated consequences of the 2008 Farm Act’s Planting Transferability Pilot Program (PTPP) on processing (pickling) cucumber plantings. PTPP allows program crop growers in seven Upper Midwestern States to reduce base acres and plant select vegetables for processing on those acres without reducing Government payments on their remaining base acres. Stagnant market demand and the farmers’ ability to enter or expand processing cucumber production without the pilot program may explain why the acres planted to pickling cucumbers may increase only marginally. Our findings suggest that PTPP would increase production by 180 acres, or by less than 0.5 percent of acreage in the Upper Midwestern States. About half an average-sized cucumber farm (43 acres) would be created in the region due to PTPP and an additional 137 acres would be planted by existing processing cucumber growers. With these small changes in regional cucumber acreage, PTPP is not likely to affect the national market and price outlook. The availability of nonbase acres, prior planting history, and distance to a processor are significant variables in determining planted cucumber acres.

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  • Krissoff, Barry & Motamed, Mesbah & Young, Edwin & You, Chengxia, 2011. "Fruit and Vegetable Planting Restrictions: Analyzing the Processing Cucumber Market," Vegetables and Melons Outlook 393831, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uersor:393831
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.393831
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